Italian Landscape with a Draughtsman
Also titled Italiaans landschap met tekenaar
Jan Both (Utrecht, 1618–1652)
c. 1650 - 1652
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 188.5 cm x width 240.4 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- On loan from the City of Amsterdam (A. van der Hoop Bequest)
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
Our eye meanders happily through this large painting. If we follow the road and cross the bridge, we see in the distance a well-to-do traveller in a sedan chair. Mules carry his baggage. By placing a draughtsman near the bridge over the waterfall, Both would have us believe that he painted this scene from life, but in reality it was painted at home in his Dutch studio.
